• Streaming Media Caching at Client-side
• Stream Merging (Multicast-based) Techniques at Server-side
• Streaming Access Workload Characterization and Generation
• Protocols for Streaming Data Transmissions

Streaming Media Caching at Client-side

• Subhabrata Sen, Jennifer Rexford, and Don Towsley. Proxy Prefix Caching for Multimedia Streams. INFOCOM'99.
• Y. Wang, Z.-L. Zhang, D. Du, and D. Su. A network conscious approach to end-to-end video delivery over wide area networks using proxy servers. INFOCOM'98.
• Salehi, J., Zhang, Z., Kurose, J. and Towsley, D. Supporting Stored Video: Reducing Rate Variability and End-to-End Resource Requirements through Optimal Smoothing. SIGMETRICS'96.
• Reza Rejaie, Haobo Yu, Mark Handley, Deborah Estrin. Multimedia Proxy Caching Mechanism for Quality Adaptive Streaming Applications in the Internet. INFOCOM'00. Another version of the paper in WCW'99.
• Z. Miao and A. Ortega. Proxy caching for efficient video services over the Internet. PVW'99.
• Soam Acharya and Brian Smith. MiddleMan: A Video Caching Proxy Server. NOSSDAV'00.
• Olivier Verscheure, Chitra Venkatramani, Pascal Frossard and Lisa Amini. Joint Server Scheduling and Proxy Caching for Video Delivery. WCW'01.
• Jussara Almeida, Derek Eager, and Mary Vernon. A Hybrid Caching Strategy for Streaming Media Files. MMCN'01
• Markus Hofmann, T.S. Eugene Ng, Katherine Guo, Sanjoy Paul and Hui Zhang. Caching Techniques for Streaming Multimedia over the Internet, Draft. Another paper by the same authors in RTAS'00.

Stream Merging (Multicast-based) Techniques at Server-side

• Leana Golubchik, John C.S. Lui, and Richard Muntz. Reducing I/O Demand in Video-On-Demand Storage Servers. SIGMETRICS'95.
• Charu Aggarwal, Joel Wolf and Philip S. Yu. On optimal piggyback merging policies for video-on-demand systems. SIGMETRICS'96.
• Kien A. Hua Simon Sheu. Skyscraper Broadcasting: A New Broadcasting Scheme for Metropolitan Video-on-Demand Systems. SIGCOMM'97.
• Steven Carter and Darrell Long. Improving Video-on-Demand Server Efficiency Through Stream Tapping. ICCCN'97.
• Kien A. Hua, Y. Cai and S. Sheu. Patching: A Multicast Technique for True Video-on-Demand Services. MULTIMEDIA'98.
• Y. Cai, Kien A. Hua and Khanh Vu. Optimizing Patching Performance. MMCN'99.
• Lixin Gao and Don Towsley. Supplying instantaneous Video-On-Demand services using controlled multicast. ICMCS'99. An extended version (TR).
• Lixin Gao, Zhi-Li Zhang, and Don Towsley. Catching and Selective Catching: Efficient Latency Reduction Techniques for Delivering Continuous Multimedia Streams. MULTIMEDIA'99
• Subhabrata Sen, Lixin Gao, Jennifer Rexford, and Don Towsley. Optimal Patching Schemes for Efficient Multimedia Streaming. NOSSDAV'99.
• Derek Eager, Mary Vernon, and John Zahorjan. Minimizing Bandwidth Requirements for On-Demand Data Delivery. TKDE, to appear in 2001.
• Derek Eager, Mary Vernon, and John Zahorjan. Bandwidth Skimming: A Technique for Cost-Effective Video-on-Demand. MMCN'00.
• Anirban Mahanti, Derek Eager, Mary Vernon, and Dave Sundaram-Stukel. Scalable Real-time Media Streaming with Packet Loss Recovery. SIGCOMM'01.
• Sridhar Ramesh, Injong Rhee, andKatherine Guo. Multicast with Cache (Mcache): An Adaptive Zero Delay Video-on-Demand Service. INFOCOM'01.
• A. Bar-Noy and R.E. Ladner. Competitive On-Line Stream Merging Algorithms for Media-on-Demand. SODA'01.
• E.G. Coffman Jr., P. R. Jelenkovic, P. Momcilovic. Provably Efficient Stream Merging. WCW'01.

Streaming Access Workload Characterization and Generation

• S. Acharya and B. Smith. An Experiment to Characterize Videos On The Web. MMCN'98.
• S. Acharya and B. Smith, P. Parnes. Characterizing User Access To Videos On The World Wide Web.  MMCN'00.
• J. Padhye and J. Kurose. An Empirical Study of Client Interactions with a Continuous-Media Courseware Server.  NOSSDAV'98.
• Nissim Harel, Vivekanand Vellanki, Ann Chervenak, Gregory Abowd and Umakishore Ramachandran. Workload of a Media-Enhanced Classroom Server.  2nd Workshop on Workload Characterization
• Maureen Chesire, Alec Wolman, Geoff Voelker, and Henry Levy. Measurement and Analysis of a Streaming Workload. USITS'01.
• Jussara M. Almeida, Jeffrey Krueger, and Mary K. Vernon. Analysis of Educational Media Server Workloads. Abstract to appear in SIGMETRICS'01. Long version in NOSSDAV'01.
• Art Mena and John Heidemann. An Empirical Study of Real Audio Traffic. INFOCOM'00.
• P. Barford and M. E. Crovella. Generating Representative Web Workloads for Network and Server Performance Evaluation. SIGMETRICS '98
• M. W. Garrett and W. Willinger. Analysis, modeling and generation of self-similar VBR video traffic. SIGCOMM'94.
• Walter Willinger, Murad S. Taqqu, Robert Sherman and Daniel V. Wilson. Self-similarity Through High-Variability: Statistical Analysis of Ethernet LAN Traffic at the Source Level. SIGCOMM'95.

Protocols for Streaming Data Transmissions

• Reza Rejaie, Mark Handely, and Deborah Estrin. RAP: An End-to-end Rate-based Congestion Control Mechanism for Realtime Streams in the Internet. INFOCOM'99.
• Dorgham Sisalem and Henning Schulzrinne. The Loss-delay Based Adjustment Algorithm: A TCP-friendly Adaptation Scheme. NOSSDAV'98.
• Sally Floyd, Mark Handley, Jitendra Padhye, and Joerg Widmer. Equation-Based Congestion Control for Unicast Applications. SIGCOMM'00.
• Yang Richard Yang, Simon S. Lam, "General AIMD Congestion Control". In Proceedings of ICNP 2000. (pdf)
• J. Padhye, V. Firoiu, D. Towsley, and J. Kurose. Modeling TCP Throughput: A Simple Model and its Empirical Validation. SIGCOMM'98.
• H. Schulzrinne, A. Rao, and R. Lanphier. RFC 2326: Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP).
• Sally Floyd, Mark Handley, and Jitendra Padhye. A Comparison of Equation-Based and AIMD Congestion Control.
• Deepak Bansal and Hari Balakrishnan. TCP-friendly Congestion Control for Real-time Streaming Applications. INFOCOM'01.
• Deepak Bansal, Hari Balakrishnan, Sally Floyd, and Scott Shenker. Dynamic Behavior of Slowly-Responsive Congestion Control Algorithms. SIGCOMM'01.
• Y. Richard Yang, Min Sik Kim, and Simon S. Lam. Transient Behavior of TCP-friendly Congestion Control Protocols. INFOCOM'01.